Caracterização de riscos ambientais em empresas de Curitiba e região metropolitana

Abstract

The identification and previous recognition of environmental agents can help avoiding accidents and diseases on the workplace and can also foresee common risky situations and specific environments. This study has as main objective identify the general characteristics of companies settled in Curitiba and metropolitan region in different segments of activity – such as extractive industries, processing industries, construction, commerce, vehicle repair, transport, human health –, with a statistical analysis of environmental risks found on them. For this, data was collected from the companies in the region and were the gathered and classified according to National Economic Activity Classification (CNAE) and then transformed into graphical material to interpret the collected data. With the tabbing and comparison of the data, the study revealed that the environment of all studied companies is exposed to a certain ergonomic agent, while the biological agents were the less found agents. The activity with the greatest number of risks is construction, while commerce has the lowest amount of risks. The study also identified that the sector with the highest noise level is that of construction, while the human health sector was characterized as the least noisy. The study also suggests actions for the risks found.